Walter Savage Landor

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The poetry of Walter Savage Landor spans the final years of the Enlightenment to the greatest achievements of the Victorian Empire. Landor is now regarded as a ‘poet’s poet’, whose sensitive and beautiful poetry won the admiration of Browning, Yeats, Ezra Pound and Robert Frost. His celebrated love poems were inspired by a succession of female romantic ideals – Ione, Ianthe, Rose Aylmer and Rose Paynter — while his “domestic” poems concerning his sister and children reveal equal finesse. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Landor’s collected poetical works, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

Description

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Landor’s life and works
* Concise introduction to the life and poetry of Walter Savage Landor
* Rare collections available in no other digital publication
* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Includes a selection of Landor’s prose
* Features a bonus biography – discover Landor’s literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

Please note: due to Landor’s method of titling the majority of his poems with Roman numerals, this Delphi edition does not feature our usual chronological and alphabetical contents tables.

CONTENTS:

The Life and Poetry of Walter Savage Landor
BRIEF INTRODUCTION: WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

The Poetry Collections
GEBIR
COLLECTION OF 1846
THE HELLENICS
THE LAST FRUIT OF AN OLD TREE
DRY STICKS
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS FROM “HEROIC IDYLS” WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS, 1863

The Play
COUNT JULIAN

Selected Prose
IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS: A SELECTION
THE PENTAMERON
CITATION AND EXAMINATION OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE

The Biography
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR by Leslie Stephen